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Volume CV, Number 22 University of Southern California Monday. October 5. 1987
The heat is on Bork in downtown rally
By Mika Manty
Staff Writer
CATHY HERRERA DAILY TROJAN
DOWN WITH BORK — Lieutenant Govenor Leo McCarthy speaks at Sunday’s downtown rally protesting the confirmation of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
More than 1,000 people from several human rights, political and labor organizations gathered in record-setting heat to protest the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in downtown Los Angeles Sunday.
Southern Californians United Against Bork brought out several of his key opponents to speak before the audience sweltering in the heat. Each speaker stressed Bork "is not suitable" for the judicial office.
Some of the speakers were California Lieutenant Gov ernor Leo McCarthy, Eleanor Smeal of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. KABCs Bill Press, California Assemblyman Lucille Royhal Allard, and Ramona Ripston, American Civil Liberties Union director.
"We are here to reject the nomination of Judge Bork by the U.S. Senate," McCarthy said. "This is a fundamental question. Bork is not the kind of judge whom we want to interpret the United States Constitution.
"The Constitution protects us and we have to protect the Constitution.''
The enthusiastic audience represented, among others, L.A NOW,
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Fellowship programs let graduates travel abroad
By Julia Kirkendall
Staff Writer
Officials satisfied with radiation case settlement, $25,500 fine
Opportunities for study abroad do not end when a student receives his diploma. Graduate fellowship programs exist that will allow about 1,700 Americans to explore the world for free.
After traveling abroad a student will "see the United States from a different perspective," said Rosanne Dutton, assistant dean of the Graduate School.
Three scholarships are offered on a competitive basis to United States citizens with the minimum of a bachelor's degree, Dutton said.
Individuals who plan ahead will increase their chance of getting a scholarship, she said, adding that fellowship workshops are offered every fall and spring to help inform students.
The Rotary Foundation International Fellowship will sponsor about
1,000 students in their studies abroad this year.
The purpose of the scholarship is to "foster international good
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By Shawn Pogatchnik
Assistant Citv Editor
University officials expressed satisfaction with Thursday's criminal suit settlement in Los Angeles County Municipal Court, which lashed the university with a $25,500 fine and ordered it to establish a $75,000 fellowship in radiation safety.
"The university is satisfied," said Stephen Auer, university counsel, who defended the university in the case. "How well we did is hard to assess. The university got what it wanted. The city attorney's office got what it wanted. It was a negotiated process."
The settlement came after more than three months of out-of-court negotiations between university lawyers, led by Auer, and Deputy City Attorney Steve Tekofsky.
Faced since March with a 179-count criminal suit for mismanagement of its radioactive materials safety program, the university was able to reduce the charges to 15 misdemeanor counts in a plea-bargaining maneuver Each count carried a maximum penalty of $1.000 and a year in prison or both.
The universitv' pleaded no contest to violating state laws regulating the use of radioactive materials on the reduced. 15-count charge, in what
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‘Father of Vietnam Vet Centers’ tells of his views as a counselor
By Yamil Berard
Staff Writer
Shad Meshad, recognized as the "Father of the Vietnam Vet Centers," spoke of his experience as a medical surgeon and psychiatric counselor for hundreds of mentally disturbed soldiers in Vietnam last month when he addressed Robert Kline's political science class, titled "The Vietnam Experience: the Impact of the War."
Meshad, a French-Lebanese Catholic from Alabama who spoke with a noticeable Southern accent, began the evening by recalling his first encounter with the "need for survival" during competitive sports in high school.
"I was violent in sports. . .never looking to enjoy football. I was small and a minority. The need for survival was really prominent in football," he said.
After spending a year in a Jesuit seminary and "getting a chance to kick back and not feel the pressure," he went to college and received training in guerrilla tactics during a mandatory Army ROTC program.
During basic training with the 82nd Airborne, an advanced Army ROTC unit, he was shown live color footage of the maimings, killings and murders occurring in Vietnam. "Big jocks started to throw up. I closed my eyes every once in a while. By the end, three of us were left in the room,” Meshad said.
His Vietnam experience was further delayed when he received a fellowship to continue graduate work. Meshad earned degrees in criminology and social work. After graduation he served as a mental health warden, counseling Army and Air
Force prisoners who had returned from Vietnam in the late '60s.
Meshad said he counseled 30 soldiers daily, "all who had either raped or murdered." The majority of them encountered racial discrimination or relationship problems upon their return
"After seeing these guys, I felt a heavy guilt for getting so many breaks from going to 'Nam. These men were like lions in cages. It took three or four guys to put these guys back behind bars Their stories overwhelmed me. They became stories for me. And there I was, safe at home. 1 felt like smuck then, extremely guilty — all these years running away from something. . . I felt it was time to take action."
In January of 1970, Meshad said, he embarked on the trip that would dramatically change his life He became a member of a selected team of volunteers who were to treat soldiers with mental disturbances.
Meshad said a bulky colonel greeted the team with a hearty, "Welcome representatives of Southeast Asia."
"He told us to 'look to our left and right. One of those people you see now will not return and the other will be disabled.' That was our greeting. There was no go get ’em speech," he said.
For the next six months, Meshad was responsible for 70,000 troops and their problems. "Drugs, alcohol, racial, schizophrenic problems during combat situations — guys in no-end situations. Every kind of problem ran. Any and every."
Meshad also acted as a medical surgeon. He said tracheotomies were "popular" treatments in Vietnam. They were performed by making an incision
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GLENN SWAM DAILT TROJAN
DAMAGE — Embassy Resedenttal College received some damage due to this past week’s earthquake activity but no stuctural damage to the university had been discovered before Sunday morning’s quake. See story, page 2.

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Volume CV, Number 22 University of Southern California Monday. October 5. 1987
The heat is on Bork in downtown rally
By Mika Manty
Staff Writer
CATHY HERRERA DAILY TROJAN
DOWN WITH BORK — Lieutenant Govenor Leo McCarthy speaks at Sunday’s downtown rally protesting the confirmation of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
More than 1,000 people from several human rights, political and labor organizations gathered in record-setting heat to protest the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in downtown Los Angeles Sunday.
Southern Californians United Against Bork brought out several of his key opponents to speak before the audience sweltering in the heat. Each speaker stressed Bork "is not suitable" for the judicial office.
Some of the speakers were California Lieutenant Gov ernor Leo McCarthy, Eleanor Smeal of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. KABCs Bill Press, California Assemblyman Lucille Royhal Allard, and Ramona Ripston, American Civil Liberties Union director.
"We are here to reject the nomination of Judge Bork by the U.S. Senate," McCarthy said. "This is a fundamental question. Bork is not the kind of judge whom we want to interpret the United States Constitution.
"The Constitution protects us and we have to protect the Constitution.''
The enthusiastic audience represented, among others, L.A NOW,